Suppose a customer is considering switching from Azure to Google Cloud. What are 5-7 key pieces of information (metrics, policies, etc.) about Google Cloud you would want to show them?
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- What’s the objective : Is to make the customer more comfortable about his decision to switch and may be influence him to Switch
Assumptions : We have some Idea on how much data he has and the applications he plans to switch and whether he is planning to shift partially or fully. We also know some of the pain points that is causing him to switch . Some of the questions that might be bugging him and which he might need to know before he agrees to switchi might include
Cost of Switching
How much money will we save by switching
How much money will we need to switch
Ease of Switching -
Time / Effort
Data loss
How we fit into the clients business needs
Industry Specific Solutions from Google for the Domain
Customizations possible
Integrations with Legacy solutions that the client has both on Prem and on Azure which he may not be shifting to Cloud as of now
App Store / Market place for additional needs which Google might not be able to fulfill on its own
Cloud Integrators or Developers
Support and Maintenance
Uptime
SLAs
Capacity
Latency
5. Security and Regulations
- How safe is Google Cloud
- How does it meet the regulations / Audit Needs necessary in the industry
- How does it keep the Data Safe, Anonymized and free from change
- What about the Data Retention policies and secutiy policies for users and roles etc
A. Clarity – They are perspective clients only right? Not onboarded already?
Assumptions - I already know the amount of data they have, resources deployed for migration etc.
Things I would like to show them –
1. How efficiently we fit their business scope as opposed to their existing cloud provider - both in terms of their cloud needs, data processing and pricing for the same. Offer customizations
2. Our overall cloud offerings specifically catering to the same domain as the client in question
3. Overall techstack of google cloud
4. Usage analytics over cloud – our DC footprint, our customer spread across the world, Goverance and health scorecards etc. Additional metrics on how efficiently our VMs operate. Capacity, latency, throughput, Reliability etc.
5. The complete E2E strategy of how we can help them migrate. How easy/complicated the migration would be, timelines, cost, resource plan and migration roadmap. It is essential to understand what type of migration strategy will we concentrate on – Rehost, Retire, Replatform, Refactor etc.
6. Risks during cloud migration and how we intend to mitigate them
7. Overall our Governance policies, Data Security policies during migration
8. Our support policies, overall response time
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